about heads – an old poem

I am a woman of grace and elegance well accessorized and polished. Today I met a man with no head and I thought, how shocking, what could he be thinking of? he forgot his most important accessory! I live, I work, I accessorize I smile, I cry, I criticize. and yet and yet and yet...

Free Fall

This is a somewhat complicated post that ties up several things that are in my head. To start with, I read this book 'Free fall' by William Golding. Its a deeply 'real' book about the journey of a very poor young boy through his childhood, adolescence, his fatal love affair, his capture and torture by...

Bucky Fuller

“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.” ― Buckminster Fuller Bucky Fuller has been a recurring leitmotif in my life. I first heard of him when I went to college, I think it was on the day he died - July 1st 1983. Some people around me were trying to build a dome in...

looking back

I'm home after a long trip to the alma mater NID, Ahmedabad and a short trip to Kolkata. While I cherish my time at NID - it was a rite of passage into adulthood for me - in my memory it was also a cold place. I left before finishing my course and it has...

starting with the last thought i had on a previous blog in a previous life

What do I want? I know and I don’t What do you want? I don’t know if you know We stand on the thin ledge of unknowing one false step and we plunge into certain knowledge that we don’t want to know.